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Games
Portal Gets Played On An IPhone, Sort Of
1:45AM Adam Frucci | OK guys, deep breath. This is a video of Portal being played on an iPhone, and it looks pretty good. But it’s probably not an actual port of Portal. More »
Robots
Image Cache: GlaDOS and HAL9000 Are Separated At Birth, Or Lovers?
7:00AM Jason Chen | Both machines are killers, but which one is less evil? Which one would kill you more humanely? [Pickaklas] More »
Games
The Portal Gun Build Process, Documented in 113 Photos
2:40AM Mark Wilson | You’ve already seen the famous fan-made Portal Gun. Now see the entire build process documented in 113 photos (OK, only about 40 of them actually showing the gun in its raw clay form). More »
Games
A Real Portal Gun (Well, Sort Of)
3:20AM Mark Wilson | Sadly, this post won’t make any sense to you if you missed Valve’s acclaimed videogame Portal from last year. But then again, if you missed that game, your life is devoid of meaning anyway. More »
Screens
I Played Portal on a 150-Inch Plasma HDTV and You Didn’t
6:54AM Adam Frucci | digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/I_Played_Portal_on_a_150_Inch_Plasma_HDTV_and_You_Didn_t'; On Friday, Mahoney and I went to Panasonic HQ to check out one of the first prototypes of their ludicrous 150-inch plasma TV. This thing puts the 103-incher that I checked out last year to shame. It’s a metric ton of overkill, and we hooked up our PS3 and suffered through playing a bunch of video games on it to report back to you. You’re welcome! Today, a taste, with me sizing up a weighted companion cube in Portal, above, and, after the jump, seeing what a 42-inch steering wheel on Gran Turismo would be like in real life and learning the ropes in Call of Duty 4. Check back tomorrow for a full report. More »
GPS
GLaDOS GPS Voice Might Make You Think the Directions are a Lie
1:15AM Adam Frucci | Sure, a Knight Rider GPS system is cool if you’re in your 40s and remember watching the show when it was first on, but what about people looking for a GPS navigator with a more contemporary cultural reference? How about GLaDOS from Portal, one of the best games of the last few years? More »
Music
SanDisk Buys MusicGremlin; Revisits Wi-Fi Music Player Thing
2:45AM Wilson Rothman | Today SanDisk announced it would acquire the company that developed the chunky MusicGremlin Wi-Fi MP3 player, a device that made a smallish splash a few years ago for being the Zune before there was a Zune. More »
Phones
Video: First Hands On Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X1
12:29AM Brian Lam | Playing with Xperia, Sony’s Windows Mobile phone with a hiptop QWERTY, revealed a few interesting things:
Hardware
